[mkgmap-dev] A contribution to the vocabulary based on the mkgmap default style and typ files.

Mon Aug 10 15:41:25 BST 2020

Hi,

0x23 is Brazilian Portuguese.  It is  similar, but not equal, to '0x0b 
Portuguese'.

Best regards,

     Alexandre

On 09/08/2020 09:29, nick wrote:
>
> I can help you with 0x23 - 2e
>
> "0x23 brazilian"
> "0x24 korean"
>  "0x25 japanese"
>  "0x26 chinese"
>  "0x27 trad. chinese"
>  "0x28 thai"
>  "0x29 arabic"
>  "0x2a belarusian"
>  "0x2b ukrainian"
>  "0x2c moldavian"
>  "0x2d montenegrin"
>  "0x2e Irish"
>
> r.
>
> Nick
>
> On 09/08/2020 13:09, Randolph J. Herber wrote:
>>
>> Dear, Sir:
>>
>> Apparently, I did not make myself sufficiently clear. I apologize. 
>> First, I request the codes from 0x23 to 0x2e so that I can assign the 
>> correct languages to those codes. Second, and I quote myself: "I 
>> arbitrarily assigned codes for the other languages."
>>
>> I see two uses for the table I provided. First, for someone that does 
>> not use a language whose code is 0x01 to 0x22 to use one of the 
>> "extra" languages to fill slot 0x00 or, in fact, any of the slots to 
>> have a more comfortable language in their Garmin receiver. Second, 
>> for some who does not not want to do a language re-assignment, to 
>> find translations from a more comfortable language to one of the 
>> Garmin "official" languages.
>>
>> In no way to I contradict your statement: "As far as I know Garmin 
>> only uses codes up to 0x2E."
>>
>> As I said before: "I request consideration: I intend no offense and 
>> corrections are welcome."
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Randolph J. Herber
>>
>> On 8/9/2020 4:41 AM, nick wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm interested to learn the source you used for language codes   > 
>>> &0x2F  .
>>>
>>> As far as I know Garmin only uses codes up to 0x2E
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> On 08/08/2020 21:42, Randolph J. Herber wrote:
>>>> Hi, all!
>>>>
>>>> First, note the attached file is in JSON format and is inherently 
>>>> UTF-8.
>>>>
>>>> Second, the file contains four sub-tables: point, line, polygon, 
>>>> and language. The first three should be obvious. The language 
>>>> sub-table contains the languages presented. I used the extant codes 
>>>> for the extant languages mentioned in the mkgmap web documentation. 
>>>> I arbitrarily assigned codes for the other languages. Altogether, 
>>>> one hundred three languages are presented. I used Google Translate 
>>>> and am paying for Google's services here. Therefore, this is 
>>>> work-for-hire and I may give them away. Yes, I readily admit some 
>>>> of translations are awkward or even incorrect. There, I request 
>>>> consideration: I intend no offense and corrections are welcome. I 
>>>> tended not to change Eurocentric terms to American terms although 
>>>> in some cases I added the equivalent American term. I expanded some 
>>>> of the phrases in hopes of improving the machine translations.
>>>>
>>>> Third, I feel that all urban areas should be treated equivalently 
>>>> and I note Ticker Berkin's previous comments on that topic, the 
>>>> translations reflect my preferences. I did incorporate Ticker's 
>>>> most significant objection which I did find valid. Also, I feel 
>>>> that an logarithmic scale is appropriate in this application and 
>>>> that 3.2*3.2 is 10.24, which is about 10. This allows a good range 
>>>> of population values.
>>>>
>>>> Fourth, I am working on incorporating this material into the 
>>>> default style and typ files, in particular the typ file.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Randolph J. Herber
>>>>
>>>>
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